Teaching Chinese topic of symposium

Wuhan University, the University of Oxford China Centre and the University of Leeds jointly staged an international academic symposium on teaching Chinese culture and language in Oxford this week, an event that was part of Wuhan University's Overseas Academic Week.

The symposium, titled "Language Communication and Civilization Dialogue", attracted more than 40 experts and scholars from 20 international universities.

Delegates spoke about such themes as Chinese cultural studies, Chinese and Western cultural comparisons, cultural issues commonly found when teaching the Chinese language and theories and methods related to language and culture studies.